Web based Collaborative Design System for the Concurrent Ship Design

摘要

Under the concept of global economy, the enterprises are assigning design and production environments around the world in different areas. In shipbuilding companies, a serious problem of information exchange emerges as companies use traditional hardware and very distinct softwares appropriate to their field of expertise. To overcome the decreased productivity due to the interruption of information, the concept of simultaneous engineering and concurrent design becomes very significant. In this article, the concept of collaborative design based on Internet environments is described. Especially, the core technologies to achieve collaborative design environments among shipbuilding companies, ship owners, ship classification societies, model basin, and consulting companies are adopted. The collaborative ship design system environments to implement in this study are based on Internet, product model, and virtual engineering. It can make a collaborative design system produce more valuable design information at the early stage of design process.